INSIDE COMMUNITY EVENTS B2 _ AT- THE’ LIBRAR SHEELAGH MEIKLEM Recipes to warm you over winter HE FRESH chill in the moming air indicates that it is time to bid adieu to summer fun and frolic. Did we actually have a sum- mer to frolic in? Oh well, maybe next year. But for now we must turn elsewhere for than in the kitchen! Forget the barbecue, let’s have some real food. Fortunately there is a plethora of great cookbooks available and new ones arrive constantly. Even old stand-bys are being reissued in new improved format, Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book is one of the best of these with all the versions. For the nostalgic, Canadian Living’s Country Cooking is full of simple recipes for old fashioned down home meals...nothing low-fat here! The Australian Women’s Weekly has a wonderful series of cookbooks that cover the gamut from barbecue to Thai with stops along the way at cookies and breads. These are thin books full of incredible mouth watering photographs. Some of the ingredients are obscure but there is a glossary to help the non Aussie. Equally esoteric, but with a Canadian slant, is The Elk Hunter’s Cook Book, a col- lection of favourite recipes from members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. This includes such delicacies as Elk Sauer- braten and Roast Bear. There is a useful section on camp cooking and some interest- ing desserts like Cowboy Cookies and Dirt Pie! For me, most of the fun of a cook- book is seeing how wonderful every- thing is supposed to look! Along the same lines is the Northern Cook Book by Eleanor Ellis. Here are recipes for every kind of game, fish and bird. Anyone for Baked Seal Flippers? Another great series is Anne Willan’s Look and Cook. This has step by step illus- trations for each recipe and the recipes are gourmet farel One of the fastest growing categories of cookbooks are ones which feature low fat recipes. A high profile one is fa the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah’s Favourite Recipes by Rosie Daley. The recipes in the book are elegant yet fairly simple, and besides Oprah loves them! J Then there is For Goodness’ Sake, an eating well guide to creative low-fat cook- ing by Terry Joyce Blonder; The 99% Fat- Free Cookbook by Barry Bluestein and Kevin Morrissey; and, for special dietary needs, Secrets of Lactose-Free Cooking by Arlene Burlant. These three are no doubt full of great recipes and interesting dishes but they are so carnest..not a frivolous photo to be found. . For me, most of the fun of a cookbook is ‘seeing how wonderful everything is sup- posed to look! In this regard the next book does not let me down. Best-Ever Pasta — The Definitive Cook’s Collection, edited by Linda Fraser lives up to the title, It is full of shiny colour photos of amazing pasta dishes that cry out to be tasled. Once you have borrowed this one, you won’t want to return it. But please remember, others are waiting! Cooking isn’t limited to cookbooks, as these next few tilles show. Plain cooking ©can’. be murder as demonstrated by: Diane Mott Davidson in her series featuring Goldy Bear the caterer, - who keeps tripping ‘over corpses in such titles as. Catering: to Nobody, Dying for Chocolate, and The Cereal Murders.” Each book contains a menu for a catered event.and the recipes for all the dishes, Bon " appetit! , — comfort and what better place to search old popular recipes as well as new low fat © THE COMMUNITY is ral- lying around a ten-year-old boy who is recovering from serious bums. On August 5 Cody Mooney was involved in an accident which nearly took his life. He and two other youths were playing with flammable liquids. A canister of fuel was acciden- tally spilled, creating a fireball. The two other youths es- caped serious injury, but Cody was badly burned. The quick-thinking action of his 12-year-old friend prob- ably saved his life. She im- mediately took him to the shower to douse the flames. Cody was rushed to Van- couver with his step-mother Kelly Mooney, and so far has undergone 12 surgeries. ‘Cody spent nearly seven weeks in isolation at Chil- dren’s Hospital,’’ says Sharaiyn Palagian, a close friend of the family. Cody Mooney He’s since been trans- ferred to. Vancouver General Hospital where he faces one more major surgery before physical therapy begins. But even then Cody faces another two to 10 years of surgeries. As well as an emotional ordeal, Cody’s family has to cope with expenses of travelling to and temporarily living in Vancouver. Cody’s father Al was in Vancouver for four weeks with him, but had to return to his job as a truck driver — Men can play a role year MOST MEN would agree that it’s wrong to a hit a woman. Bul how do those men stop other men from being violent? Speaking out against jokes that demean women, or ob- jecting to senseless violence against women in movies are good ideas, says Karla Hennig, She offers those suggestions to men who wonder how they can make a difference, Hennig is one of the organizers for the Take Back the Night march, on Sept. 27, The annual rally and march take place across the country and protest violence against women. Women make a statement by march- ing through the streets at night, chanting ‘‘Women unite, Take back the night.’” Men often ask how they can take part in the march. Usually they are usked to cheer from the sidelines or help by babysitting children. But this year Hennig and co-organizer Carol Sabo have more suggestions for men and for students, They’re distributing a “Personal Action Plan’ for both men and women to look at. The plan gives . people an idea what they can do to stop violence agalnst women. Some focal churches have agreed to support the plan. Other copics are available at the women’s — resource centre, at 4542 Park Ave, The plan lists actions that , men, women, neighbours, consumers, workers and students can take. ae families, : TERRACE STANDARD after that. Now he takes as many trips as he can squeeze in to Vancouver, So Palagian took on the role of trying to raise money to help out the family. “A lot of people know Kelly and I are good friends and they wanted to know how they could help,”’ she said, explaining her involve- ment. Kelly worked for Palagian for five years at her store, Central Gifts. Now Palagian is organiz- ing an auction which will take place in front of her store on Sept. 27, Cody’s family doesn’t even know about the auc- tion, she explained. Many of Palagian’s sup- pliers have donated items for the auction. She’s also had a number of donations from local businesses and more keep coming in. “The whole thing is really snowballing.” The auction will take place at the Lazelle Ave. mall from noon fill 2 p.m. Palagian says there will be a wide variely of goods in- cluding picnic tables, gift items, clathing and more. Leo DeJong has volunteered to act as auc- tioneer. The whole event will be videotaped. As a special treat for Cady, motorcyclists taking parl in the annual Toy Run, which happens that day, will drive through the parking lot and wave to Cody via the video camera. There will also be a large card for people to sign, and hot dogs and pop for sale. If people would prefer to make a donation, rather than buy an auction item, there will be a donation barrel set up during the auction. Or people can donate money to a special bank account that’s been set up a Northem Savings Credit Union. There are also glass jars at local businesses = where people can donate spare The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 24, 1997 - B1 COINS FOR CODY — Sharalyn Palagian is organizing an auction on Sept 27 SECTION B from noon-2 p.m. to help the family of Cody Mooney, a ten-year-old burn victim. The family doesn’t know about the auction and she hopes to raise money to help‘ them afford to stay with Cody, as he undergoes years of surgery. If you'd like to contribute to the auction phone her at 635-3334, change. Palagian acknowledges that Terrace is going. through some hard times, econoniically, but says even if someone can throw a quarter in the donation bar- rel, it will help. If you'd like to make a donation to the auction you can call Palagian at 635- 3334 at work or 635-3982 at ‘home. Staff and students at Cop- per Mountain Elementary, where Cody would have been in grade 6, have also joined, in the effont. There’s ‘a jar for Cody at the school, and a teacher from Copper Mountain will be travelling to Vancouver in October and plans to visit Cody, That teacher will bring Cody cards that students have made, and many others have signed. Principal Dave Crawley says the school plans to MARCHERS took to the streats to protest violence against women during last year’s Take Back the Night rally. keep sending Cody cards and get well wishes. Cody will probably be in Vancouver until the end of October, and then he'll be transferred to the hospital in Prince George. Palagian says his family will probably have to relo- cate to Prince George for a few years, in order to be close to Cody. And there will still be numerous trips to Vancouver, for special- ized medical help. For example, consumers are asked to challenge the tolerance of violence and sexism in movics and ad- ! vertising. { ‘If you accept the status: quo you are accepting - violence,’ says Hennig... © “People may have the best motives’ in the world but often through -inaction ac- cept violence. Asa com munity we can get together aid stop it.’ Other volunteers from the women’s centre are In schools this week, talking to students’ about what they can do. Hennig says there’s a high level of awareness in the schools about what barass- ment is. But sometimes girls don’t know what thelr rights are when they’ re dating. “So volunteers hand out a Cosmo style relationship quiz, | The quiz asks a girl if her boyfriend is jealous of the time she spends with friends, or if he criticizes - ber. Girls who are worried they or a friend might be in an abusive relationship are in- vited lo come the women’s house for a confidential talk. By talking in schools, about what leads to violence Hennig and Sabo hope that! eventually violence will be- come less acceptable. For example, slavery was perfectly acceptable a few hundred years ago, points out Sabo. Women and girls who want to leam more about how they can help end violence are invited to the Take Back the Night march and rally Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. at the Carpenters Hall. This year’s rally will be similar to last year’s, includ- ing the march and speakers and entertainment. Two of the confirmed speakers are Elizabeth Snyder and Kathy Wesley- Scott, There will also be an open mic for people to read poems, stories and more. Entertainers include Magpie and Just Us, and Grier Kaiser and Robin Hollett. And this year there’s a special closing ceremony with Francis Birdsell, recently retumed = from _ Nicaragua. ,